The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock LadyMass Market Paperbound, 6 September 2016

"New York Times" bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when there s a mystery to solve
The eleven o clock lady is so named because the white blossoms don t open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning has been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position. Now the Darling Dahlias must dig into Rona Jean s private affairs before a killer pulls up stakes and gets away with murder.
INCLUDES SOUTHERN-STYLE DEPRESSION-ERA RECIPES!"